In a BuzzFeed video published Monday, Murillo first asked her parents why it wasn’t a priority for them to teach her the language when she was young.

Murillo’s mother, Kathy, explained why her own parents never really taught her Spanish.

“They moved us to a predominantly non-Latino area,” she said. ”[As] a middle-class Mexican-American family, they wanted their kids to have equal opportunity with all of the other kids that were in school. So they didn’t want us to have accents. They didn’t want us to carry what they thought might be excess baggage that they had growing up.”

Murillo’s father, Patrick, added that he felt discouraged to speak Spanish at home because he was made fun of when he tried.

Murillo then described her “emotional journey” toward learning Spanish with the help of a tutor and co-workers, giving honest commentary about her moments of self-doubt and her fear of looking dumb.